Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 2 | Usually he got palmed off with the Mile End Road , stabbings in Chinatown , Lascars , opium dens — you name it , Stitch was on the case . |
| 3 | He began to move off towards the castle . |
| 4 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 5 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 6 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 7 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 8 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 9 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 10 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 11 | The bus he boarded headed off on the 2 hour trip to Nagasaki , where he was to visit a Dutch theme park which commemorates early Dutch trading links with feudal Japan . |